The Order Tracking system at the Apple Store is down, and has been for the last 2+ hours. At first, the single-order lookup was completely gone, and now it's back, but is still giving the "extremely busy" message.

Mine says the same thing, shipping in 5 days, delivery the 21st....the day before Thanksgiving. When I ordered my iPod nano, they delivered it a day early so I can hope it will happen with this as well. Black iPad mini 64gb for Sprint.....

Mine says the same thing, shipping in 5 days, delivery the 21st....the day before Thanksgiving. When I ordered my iPod nano, they delivered it a day early so I can hope it will happen with this as well. Black iPad mini 64gb for Sprint.....

I would imagine that we're all going to get them before the 21st. Not only doesn't it make sense for it to take 8 calendar days to go from Shenzhen, CN to anywhere in the US based on previous Apple ship times, but it makes a whole lot of sense that the delivery timeframes would roughly follow the iPad mini Smart Cover, which shipped on 10/27 from Shenzhen and was received here on 11/01. That's 6 days, and a more likely scenario. That puts the mini as being delivered on the 19th. Good news!